Anjney Midha
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How are you going to fund it?
50% cash, 50% stock.
I don't think the question, the question isn't can GameStop afford eBay?
The question is whether the underlying business actually works.
And I think it does, but not for the reason I was expecting Ryan to pitch.
Okay.
So if you pull up eBay's 10K from February, fiscal 25, and I did not understand this until I read it, eBay spent $2.4 billion on marketing.
How many new users did they get for that?
I mean, you guys are marketers, so you understand.
One million.
Whoa.
That's crazy.
The user base went from 134 million users to 135 million users after spending $2.4 billion on marketing.
I don't know, but that's $2,400 of marketing per new user on a site that every American already knows exists.
So where's all that money going?
I don't think Cohen is buying eBay.
Just watching Ryan, I don't think he's
buying eBay because he thinks he's smarter than eBay's product team.
I think he's buying eBay because he can see $2 billion of fat that Wall Street has been pricing as fixed cost.
And so he goes, okay, let me cut that.